Jennifer Ashley is an author and writer of paranormal, historical, and contemporary romances. She writes mystery novels under the pen name Ashley Gardner, and pens stories of urban fantasy and paranormal romance under the name Allyson James. She is a New York Times Best Selling author as well as a USA Today Best Selling author. In addition, she has traveled and lived all over the world.

She has composed more than fifty novels in her time as a published author. Her books have been translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese, Hungarian, Thai, Italian, and more. She has won the RWA’s RITA Award, an award from the RT Reviewer’s Choice awards, a Prism Award and the Golden Quill Award. Jennifer enjoys reading and writing as well as her hobbies, which include hiking, cooking, playing the flute and the guitar, painting, and lastly building dollhouses. She currently lives in the Southwest.

Books By Jennifer Ashley

Jennifer has written many series, from her Pirate Series to the Immortals series to the Highland Pleasures and Shifters series. Her historical novels include the book A Queen’s Handmaiden and A Lady Raised High. Books she has written that do not belong to a series include Confessions of a Lingerie Addict and the romance novel Perils of the Heart. She has also written for anthologies, contributing “A Single Girl’s Guide To Christmas” for the book Christmas Cards From The Edge, “Viva Las Vampires” as part of Just One Sip, and “The Scotsman and the Vamp” in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance II.

Shifters Unbound: Pride Mates

This is the first book in Jennifer Ashley’s Shifters series. In these books, the Shifters are outcasts among humanity, with collars and controlled. The Shifters are feared by the human race, so they are forced to segregate from the population and live in Shiftertowns, but they are passionate people that cannot be kept down by the collars, which they are forced to wear and shock the Shifters if they get aggressive, even though they are no more aggressive than the humans. Shifters are not allowed the latest technology.

This Shiftertown is based in the Austin area, and alpha Shifter there Liam Morissey has learned that trusting in humans never really works out. Then the human girlfriend of a shifter is murdered and the police and prosecutors jump to the conclusion that her Shifter boyfriend did it. So when the beautiful and smart attorney Kim Fraser comes into Shiftertown to help prove her client Brian Smith’s innocence and comes alone, Liam offers up his protection. Brian is the first Shifter Kim Fraser has ever met, but their existence has been well known in the public eye for going on two decades. She used to assume they were supernatural creatures that really and truly needed the collars to keep them from being randomly aggressive, but she believes that Brian is innocent of this atrocious crime and so she is off to the middle of the Shiftertown to get the help of the Morrissey family, which includes the father Dylan as well as the brothers Liam and Sean. This supernatural story is heart felt and sensitive as well as sensual and includes a burgeoning romance between the Detective and one of the supernatural people she is coming to get to know better and better.

The District Attorney is immersed and knows much about the culture of the Shifters and that is why she has been assigned to the case. She also gets to know Liam, who is not only very sexy but the dominant and alpha male Shifter. He protects her and she in turn begins seeing the real sides of Shifters as well as the secrets that they conceal from the humans so that they can protect themselves. Together, Kim and Liam work against the murder charge and try to find out why certain people are so eager for the boyfriend of the murdered girl to be found guilty for the crime. As they work together, Liam and Kim start to develop a mutual attraction and their chemistry starts to go off the charts! Kim is fighting the relationship in the beginning, but as time goes on and she starts to spend more time with Liam, she slowly stops fighting the attraction.

Liam asks Kim why he should help Brian? Kim says that she thinks Brian is innocent because the collar prevents aggression. She says that the legal team have not played the way they should and that Brian has given up hope, but Kim has not. Liam questions whether he should get involved because he is attracted to Kim. He has to intervene when a random Shifter without a collar threatens Kim’s life. Will she be able to prove the innocence of her client? And what does the future hold for Kim and Liam? Time will tell.

Shifters Unbound: Primal Bonds

A female Shifter comes to the Shifter town looking for refuge, and Sean Morissey, a Feline Shifter as well as a Guardian who is chosen to have a magical sword that sends dead Shifters’ souls to the afterlife, claims her. He finds that there is a beautiful woman underneath the Shift, looking him in the eye without being afraid of him. It’s driving him crazy with mating frenzy. Andrea Gray must accept a new mate in order to relocate to a new town, but the half-Fae and half-Shifter hasn’t exactly had an easy road. And now her attraction to the Feline Shifter is a wrench in a plan she never expected to see. Andrea has had a complicated past, and the Shifter’s interest in her isn’t helping.

Ashley delivers yet another imaginative and sexually charged story here, where the magical collar-wearing shape shifters and humans still have a ways to go if they’re going to live peacefully and in harmony. Andrea has been fleeing her old town with a forced mate claim already as well as issues of abuse, and the mate claim she finds in Sean Morrissey is for the purposes of name only. But as Sean protects the sassy and smart Lupine shifter, he doesn’t expect to fall head over heels for her as quickly as he does. Andrea is strong and sexy and powerful, and she refuses to hide when humans start shooting up places Shifters are known to hang around in acts of prejudice. Sean does his best to protect Andrea but lets her stand on her own. Will he be able to protect Andrea forever? And will Andrea love him back the same way?

Master of the standalone thriller genre, Shari Lapena, is back. Author of The Couple Next Door and A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest is the latest novel by Shari. It takes place in a cozy mountain lodge in Winter where various people are staying for a romantic getaway. A blizzard cuts off the power and any contact with the outside world so everyone settles in for the long haul. Then a guest dies. And another. Knowing Shari's other books, this should be one we'll be reading late into the night. For more details or to pre-order, visit our Shari Lapena page.

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Bill Wenham is the author of various book series including The Inspector Charrington Mysteries and the Inspector Bruce Mysteries. He just started writing in his 80s to follow a life long dream. It’s an amazing story and the books he has written are pretty great too – his passion really shines through. Read more about Bills books.

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